Selective Effects of PDE10A Inhibitors on Striatopallidal Neurons Require Phosphatase Inhibition by DARPP-321,2,3
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New Research Disorders of the Nervous System Selective Effects of PDE10A Inhibitors on Striatopallidal Neurons Require Phosphatase Inhibition by DARPP-321,2,3 Marina Polito,1,2 Elvire Guiot,1,2 Giuseppe Gangarossa,3,4,5 Sophie Longueville,2,6,7 Mohamed Doulazmi,1,2 Emmanuel Valjent,3,4 Denis Hervé,2,6,7 Jean-Antoine Girault,2,6,7 Danièle Paupardin-Tritsch,1,2 Liliana R. V. Castro,1,2 and Pierre Vincent1,2 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0060-15.2015 1CNRS, UMR8256 “Biological Adaptation and Ageing”, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), F-75005 Paris, France, 2Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris 6), Sorbonne Universités, Paris, F-75005, France, 3CNRS, UMR-5203, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle, Montpellier, F-34094, France, 4Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U661, Montpellier, F-34094, France, 5Universités de Montpellier 1 & 2, UMR-5203, Montpellier, F-34094, France, 6Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale UMR-S 839, Paris, France, and 7Institut du Fer a` Moulin, Paris, France Abstract Type 10A phosphodiesterase (PDE10A) is highly expressed in the striatum, in striatonigral and striatopallidal medium- sized spiny neurons (MSNs), which express D1 and D2 dopamine receptors, respectively. PDE10A inhibitors have pharmacological and behavioral effects suggesting an antipsychotic profile, but the cellular bases of these effects are unclear. We analyzed the effects of PDE10A inhibition in vivo by immunohistochemistry, and imaged cAMP, cAMP- dependent protein kinase A (PKA), and cGMP signals with biosensors in mouse brain slices. PDE10A inhibition in mouse striatal slices produced a steady-state increase in intracellular cAMP concentration in D1 and D2 MSNs, demonstrating that PDE10A regulates basal cAMP levels. Surprisingly, the PKA-dependent AKAR3 phosphorylation signal was strong in D2 MSNs, whereas D1 MSNs remained unresponsive. This effect was also observed in adult mice in vivo since PDE10A inhibition increased phospho-histone H3 immunoreactivity selectively in D2 MSNs in the dorsomedial striatum. The PKA-dependent effects in D2 MSNs were prevented in brain slices and in vivo by mutation of the PKA-regulated phosphorylation site of 32 kDa dopamine- and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein (DARPP-32), which is required for protein phosphatase-1 inhibition. These data highlight differences in the integration of the cAMP signal in D1 and D2 MSNs, resulting from stronger inhibition of protein phosphatase-1 by DARPP-32 in D2 MSNs than in D1 MSNs. This study shows that PDE10A inhibitors share with antipsychotic medications the property of activating preferentially PKA-dependent signaling in D2 MSNs. Key words: biosensor imaging; cAMP; phosphodiesterase; protein kinase; schizophrenia; striatum Significance Statement The striatum is mainly composed of medium-sized spiny neurons that express either dopamine D1 receptors or dopamine D2 receptors. Their activity is associated with either the initiation of movement or action suppression, respectively. Biosensor imaging revealed that pharmacological inhibition of type 10A phosphodiesterase in- creased cAMP levels in D1 and D2 neurons in the same manner, but only D2 neurons exhibited an increase in the protein kinase A-mediated phosphorylation level. This effect resulted from an asymmetrical regulation of phosphatases by DARPP-32. D2 neurons are thus more prone to respond to a tonic cAMP signal than D1 neurons, a property that may explain how phosphodiesterase 10A inhibitors produced antipsychotic-like behavioral effects. This D1/D2 imbalance may also be critical for reward-mediated learning and action selection. July/August 2015, 2(4) e0060-15.2015 1–15 New Research 2 of 15 Introduction Classical and atypical antipsychotic agents share the Schizophrenia is a devastating psychiatric disease, property of inhibiting D2 receptors and thus, in the stria- which results in persistent cognitive and emotional impair- tum, increase PKA-dependent phosphorylation selec- ments. Type 10A phosphodiesterase (PDE10A) inhibitors tively in D2 MSNs (Bateup et al., 2008; Bertran-Gonzalez were recently proposed as a treatment for schizophrenia et al., 2008, 2009). In contrast, psychostimulants, which (Kehler and Nielsen, 2011; Chappie et al., 2012); however, are psychotomimetic, activate many signaling responses their cellular mechanisms of action remain unclear with in D1 MSNs (Bateup et al., 2008; Bertran-Gonzalez et al., respect to their putative therapeutic effects. PDE10A is 2008, 2009). PDE10A inhibitors were shown to increase highly and almost exclusively expressed in medium-sized cAMP levels in the striatum (Schmidt et al., 2008) and spiny neurons (MSNs) of the striatum (Seeger et al., 2003; could be expected to mimic the effects of both antipsy- Coskran et al., 2006; Heiman et al., 2008; Lakics et al., chotic and psychotomimetic compounds. We used bio- 2010; Kelly et al., 2014). MSNs are divided into two cat- sensor imaging to precisely analyze the effects of PDE10A egories based on their expression of dopamine receptors inhibitors on cAMP/PKA signaling at the level of individual and their sites of projection, as follows: MSNs projecting D1 and D2 MSNs. Our work revealed that although PDE10A inhibition increased intracellular cAMP levels in to the substantia nigra highly express dopamine D1 re- both D and D MSNs, the downstream consequences at ceptors (hereafter termed D1 MSNs); whereas, MSNs pro- 1 2 jecting to the external globus pallidus highly express the level of PKA targets were profoundly different: the cAMP signal resulting from PDE10A inhibition strongly adenosine A2A and dopamine D2 receptors (hereafter increased PKA-dependent phosphorylation in D MSNs, termed D2 MSNs; Gerfen et al., 1990; Le Moine and Bloch, 2 1995; Bertran-Gonzalez et al., 2008; Matamales et al., whereas D1 MSNs remained mostly unaffected. Further 2009). The high expression of PDE10A in MSNs, and its analyses showed that the difference required DARPP-32- interaction with the scaffold protein AKAP150 (A-kinase dependent regulation of phosphatase activity in D1 and D2 anchoring protein 150), protein kinase A (PKA), PSD-95, MSNs. and NMDA receptor suggests an important role in mod- ulating the spread of the synaptic cAMP signals into the Materials and Methods cell body (Russwurm et al., 2015). Animals Besides PDE10A, striatal neurons express a number of Animals were housed under standardized conditions specific signaling proteins that markedly differ from those in with a 12 h light/dark cycle, stable temperature (22 Ϯ other brain regions (Girault, 2012), and that determine the 1ºC), controlled humidity (55 Ϯ 10%), and food and water characteristics of the cAMP/PKA signaling pathway (Castro available ad libitum. Homozygous mice expressing et al., 2013). Among these specific proteins, DARPP-32 DARPP-32 with the T34A or T75A mutation (Svenning- (32-kDa dopamine and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein) is sson et al., 2003) were obtained by crossing heterozygous a multifunctional protein regulating phosphatase and kinase mice, on a mixed C57BL6/J-Sv129 background (a gift of activities: for example, when DARPP-32 is phosphorylated Dr. P. Greengard, The Rockefeller University, New York). at threonine 34 residue (Thr34) by PKA, it becomes a potent Male Drd2-EGFP heterozygous mice (C57Bl6/J) were inhibitor of serine/threonine protein phosphatase-1 (PP-1; generated as described previously (Gong et al., 2003). Hemmings et al., 1984; Svenningsson et al., 2004), increas- Experiments were performed in accordance with the reg- ing the duration of PKA-dependent signals (Castro et al., ulations under the control of the local ethic committee 2013). Charles Darwin C2EA - 05. Live brain slice preparation Received June 1, 2015; accepted August 10, 2015; First published August 25, 2015. Brain slices were prepared from male mice that were 1The authors declare no competing financial interests. 8–12 days of age. Coronal brain slices were cut with a 2Author contributions: M.P., E.V., D.H., D.P.-T., L.R.V.C., and P.V. designed VT1200S microtome. Slices were prepared in an ice-cold research. M.P., E.G., G.G., S.L., and L.R.V.C. performed research. M.P., E.G., solution of the following composition (in mM): 125 NaCl, 0.4 G.G., S.L., M.D., L.R.V.C., and P.V. analyzed data. E.V., D.H., J.A.-G., D.P.-T., CaCl , 1 MgCl , 1.25 NaH PO , 26 NaHCO , 25 glucose, L.R.V.C., and P.V. wrote the paper. 2 2 2 4 3 3This work was supported by grants from ATIP-Avenir (Inserm) and from the and 1 kynurenic acid, saturated with 5% CO2 and 95% O2. Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR-2010-JCJC-1412) to EV and ANR09- The slices were incubated in this solution for 30 min and then MNPS-014 to DH, and ERC to JAG. The groups of PV, and JAG and DH are placed on a Millicell-CM membrane (Millipore) in culture part of the Bio-Psy Laboratory of Excellence. medium (50% Minimum Essential Medium, 50% HBSS, 6.5 Acknowledgments: Confocal microscopy and image analysis were per- formed at the Institut du Fer a` Moulin Imaging Facilities and at the Institute of g/L glucose, penicillin-streptomycin; Invitrogen). We used Biology Paris-Seine Imaging Facility (supported by the “Conseil Regional Ile-de the Sindbis virus as a vector to induce expression of the France”, the French National Research Council, and Sorbonne University, various biosensors after overnight incubation (Ehrengruber UPMC, Paris 6). et al., 1999). The coding sequences of Epac-SH150 (Polito Correspondence should be addressed to Pierre Vincent, UMR8256, 9, quai et al., 2013), AKAR2-NLS (Zhang et al., 2005), AKAR3 (Allen St. Bernard, F-75005 PARIS, France. E-mail: [email protected]. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0060-15.2015 and Zhang, 2006), and cygnet2 (Honda et al., 2001) were Copyright © 2015 Polito et al. inserted into the viral vector pSinRep5 (Invitrogen). The viral This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative vector (ϳ5 ϫ 105 particles per slice) was added, and slices Commons Attribution 4.0 International, which permits unrestricted use, distri- bution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is were incubated overnight at 35°C under an atmosphere properly attributed.